Improving Comment security

One of my goals for Loquacity (ne: bBlog) is to improve comment security. Meaning, put as many tools in the hands of blog authors/owners as I can so they can secure their commenting against spam. usually this involves things like captchas.

Some though prefer to use a login system to verify a commenter is legit. While researching this tonight I discover the typekey, a service provided by SixApart, the makers of Moveable Type, one of the best known blog systems. Perusing their site, I noticed information about a professional network, which appears to give you what is needed to implement typekey on your own site.

Hoping I could find a way to add it to Loquacity, I created a typekey account, went to the home page and tried to join the professional network. Several times. Using different browsers. Firefox brings me to a blank page, IE brings me to a 404 page. Nice.

Introducing Loquacity

My continuation of bBlog I have renamed to Loquacity (from loquacious). I’m preparing to release version 0.8-alpha1, which includes these changes:

• Unified comment and trackback handling (both have same checks for example)
• Captcha
• Migration to ADODB for Database simplicity
• Separate code into logical units (e.g. a commentHandler class that handles all things comment related)
• Reorganization of the filesystem heirarchy
• No HTML in the core engine
• Newest version of Smarty
• Easier to upgrade 3rd party libraries
• Replacing Magpie with FeedCreator for feed generation
• Bug fixes galor

I’ll post here and the bBlog forums when the release is ready